Is there such a service that allows Linux servers to access remote cloud storage as if it were a file on a local network? I'm running a very small server, 512 MB RAM and 20 GB hard drive space, but do ...

I am using a script to regularly download my gmail messages that compresses the raw .eml into .gz files. The script creates a folder for each day, and then compresses every message into its own file.
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On OSX you can have tags which allows you to identify different categories of files. Here are two text files with different tags when viewed in Finder:
I have a large number of these files and have ...

I typed unix2dos /path/to/filename_unix.txt /path/to/filename_dos.txt in the CentOS 7 terminal, but I got the following in response:
unix2dos: converting file /path/to/filename_unix.txt to DOS format ...

On my server (Synology DS212) some files and folders have nobody nobody users and groups. What are the characteristics of this user and group? Who can write of read this file?
How can I change it ? ...

I have a folder with 500,000 images, sorted in subfolders by year and month. I'd like to create a script that does this:
If the filename does not match any of the filenames in names.log then delete ...

We are using flat text files to store in teradata table after transformations from Informatica. The file contains 14 fields (~ separated). But as the records are getting scattered over multiple lines ...

What I would like to create if I had root access would be a symlink from some file or folder in the /etc to another file or folder in the /etc. However, I do not have root access.
Is there any way to ...

When I create a new script, I always have to manually add executable permissions with chmod +x foo.sh. My default permissions are set to 644, and but I'd like any file with extensions like .sh .py to ...

I recently rebuild a machine with Centos 5.8 with a brand new disk.
This machine is old and has been running 5.8 for a long period with no issues so the only thing which changed recently is the new ...

I'm trying to write a shell script that will wait for a file to appear in the /tmp directory called sleep.txt and once it is found the program will cease, otherwise I want the program to be in a sleep ...

After editing context menu entries (by editing files in /usr/share/contractor) I have to restart the file manager to see the changes.
How to restart Pantheon Files with a command so that I don't have ...

In a single directory, I'd like to replace the first line of each file with the file's name. Each file has as the first line "TestRelation." I'd like to replace it with the file's name.
I know I can ...

I'm downloading with KTorrent, and have noticed that when I select "allocate disk space before starting torrent", it creates all the files at start, presumably empty, to avoid fragmentation.
When I'm ...

I have a load of tools that are kept in the /opt directory. The tools are organised like this: /opt/toolname/tool.sh. My question is, how can I add the tools in my /opt folder to my path, so i can run ...

I have a sort of folders (A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H) and I have one file in every folder has the same name in all the folders (file.txt) but the size of this file is different from folder to folder.
I wanted to ...